Meeting Report WP1.2 ‘Modelica library for MPC’

1. MEETING SUBJECT, DATE

Subject: WP1.2

Date: 19-02-2019

Location: Skype for Business

Minutes taken by: Lieve Helsen (KU Leuven)

2. PARTICIPANTS

Company/Organisation Participant

KU Leuven Lieve Helsen (WP Leader)

KU Leuven Filip Jorissen

KU Leuven Iago Cupeiro

KU Leuven Javier Arroyo (now @ LBNL)

KU Leuven Jan Drgona

SDU Kzrysztof Arendt

LBNL David Blum

LBNL Michael Wetter

NREL Yanfei Li

IK4 Jesus Febres

PNNL Chen Huang

3E Roel De Coninck

Hassan

3. AGENDA and REPORT

3.1. Approval/Modification Agenda

Approved

3.2. Status & further discussion where needed

a. Emulators: develop, document and review

i. Emulator development: ongoing?

Filip: simple hydronic test case has been reviewed by Dave

Iago: Infrax office model is ready, validation process ongoing, some modifications needed before reviewing process

Dave: reviewed the simple hydronic test case, simple air-based case is in Buildings Library, not yet changed

Valentin: model is ready for review by Kzrysztof

Kzrysztof: model is ready for review, documentation still needs to be written, Valentin will get it for review in short term

Draguna: major part of model is ready, still to integrate occupants model

ii. Emulator review process/checklist: ongoing? (Filip)

Draft document to start from is ready, Filip has another look at it now, maybe a second iteration by Dave. As soon as ready (finalization by Filip & Dave) it will be sent to the reviewers.

iii. Unit test guidelines: ongoing? (Dave)

BOPTEST repository contains unit tests that use the whole BOPTEST toolchain (FMU, docker …) … very similar to unit testing in Modelica Libraries Buildings, IDEAS … Javier is testing this now on his platform.

b. BOP-TEST

i. Review document ‘Development requirements and guide’ (responsible reviewers – see assignment Dave)

No progress on this yet. Assignment will be sent around next week.

ii. Prototype test – any further feedback? (All)

Javier tested with the simple hydronic emulator and PID controller, but not yet within the docker.

Chen Huang is trying to integrate their MPC in BOPTEST (Julia environment).

c. Review MPC description template: status? (All)

Two volunteers for review are: Jesus and Kzrysztof, updated version will be sent by Friday 22/02.

d. Modelica Library for MPC

i. Overview of available models (Dave)

No progress on this yet.

3.3. Important points Aachen Meeting

a. Demonstration of method for testing MPC robustness against erroneous forecasts (Kzrysztof)

b. proposals/first list of use cases and scenarios (pricing scheme, yearly evaluation …): decision to be taken

c. Joint library for MPC models

d. Demonstration BOPTEST (share insights, challenges …)

e. Joint publications?

f. …

3.4. Joint papers:

a. BS2019

b. SBE2019

c. Journal paper MPC Review: almost ready for internal review

d. Modelica Conference? No joint papers, but Filip and Jesus are going

3.5. Miscellaneous

a. New IEA-EBC Annex "Smart Data-Driven Solutions for High Performance Buildings":

preparation workshop on April 4-5 in Delft (NL). Lieve sends the email to Kzrysztof. José (Canada) is leading the detailed modelling task, and is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DOE-BOPTEST project. There may be some overlap with IBPSA project 1, but it’s not exactly the same, they want to test the controllers in real time.